Streets around the Love Commandos’ shelter. For hundreds of years, the Indian society has been stratified mainly on the basis of caste. The lower castes are not only socially deprived but also economically discriminated. Efforts by various social reformers and organizations to free India from the clutches of the caste system, untouchability and racial discrimination have had limited impact. When we discuss Indian marriages with a shade of inter-caste union, it sounds like a taboo to the majority even to this days.